The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Mangia, mangia

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O NCE IN A WHILE a cookbook appears that just can’t seem to go wrong. Judy Rodgers’s Zuni Caf&eacute Cookbook is one example: when it ...
Saturday, February 04, 2006

PORTLAND again: jazz history lives

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T HE CULTURE IN PORTLAND, at least as far as I am concerned, is predominately a caf&eacute culture. Here I am under my black Italian ha...
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Gently sliding away from “consequence”

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T HERE’S NOT MUCH REASON to say much here about Mr. Bush’s State of the Union address, but I was struck by two features: its relentless opt...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

The Old Contemplates the New

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T HIS PHOTO OF THE BINNENHOF in The Hague, taken last September, keeps pushing toward the front of the desk, I don’t know why. The Hague us...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Books, books, books

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A MONG MY FAILURES: keeping current with my reading of current material. So only now do I see the December 5 (2005) issue of The Nation , t...
Sunday, January 22, 2006

Coffee Time

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T HE BAD NEWS IS, it’s in Palo Alto. Not very likely I’m going to drive two hundred miles for coffee, not even really good coffee. But the ...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Winter Moon

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T HEY SAY YOU GET to see one thousand moons. Well, that’s what I remember reading somewhere the Chinese say, or used to say; one thousand m...
Sunday, January 08, 2006

Nathan Rubin 1929-2005

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A BSURD, OF COURSE , to have a favorite musical instrument, or even to prioritize among them. But the violin has a special place. Maybe it’s...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

8: Closing the Amsterdam dispatch book

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Healdsburg, a week later A ND SO WE’RE HOME again, after a final uitsmijter in an ordinary bar-cafe in the Marriott Hotel, and a trudge ba...
Sunday, January 01, 2006

High Water

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T HE RIVER’S UP again here on Eastside Road. The road itself is about five feet below that brown water stetching out across the road, the v...
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Grazing and Eating

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T HIS IS THE COUNTER of The Cheese Course , the local cheese store, a block and a half off the plaza defining the center of the tourist des...
Saturday, December 03, 2005

A new oratorio

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A QUICK NOTE ON BITTER HARVEST , which we heard performed by the Berkeley Symphony Saturday night. This is a new dramatic oratorio: a poeti...
Monday, November 14, 2005

Home again...

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left: our ridge, twilight B UT NOT WITHOUT FIRST seeing three more plays, eating one more fabulous meal, getting lost once or twice. All th...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Once More to L.A.

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left: LACMA at twilight Glendale, November 12— A LITTLE ODD to say of Shakespeare’s Othello that all’s well that ends well, but that’s how...
Sunday, November 06, 2005

Groningen street, September 2005

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F OR SOME TIME NOW , since the middle of September in fact, I’ve been meaning to show you this photo. Seems to me it says all you need to sa...
Friday, November 04, 2005

Movies and community

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A ND WHAT DO I THINK about the closing of our town movie theater, the Raven Film Center? It’s a very sad event, another step in the erosion...
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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Dogs and Cats

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N OT A DOG PERSON, no no no no, not in this country. We had a dog, of course, when I was a kid, sixty years ago and more; just about everyo...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Mark Morris at Zellerbach

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H OW WAS THE MARK MORRIS, a friend e-mails, and another writes I wasn't as convinced about the performance as you were, but am very gl...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

How to Write Music

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F OR A SUPPERCLUB CONCERT last night I'd been asked to provide about fifteen minutes of music. I put the assignment off too long, but a...
Monday, October 03, 2005

Go Solar!

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There seem to be various proposals afloat to help homeowners add solar panels to their roofs. Good idea, no doubt about it. But I have anoth...
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